After Mizzou’s 76-65 win over Utah State in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Thursday, Dennis Gates, Kobe Brown and D’Moi Hodge met with the media. Ever since we found out we would be playing Utah State, I think our studying behind the scenes from the staff, our coaches, but also our players played a part in our performance. Nobody in the country, nobody in the basket world, expected first of all us to be here and secondly for Utah State to go 0-11 in the first half or make the amount of threes they made.